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Guide to Folklore Collecting Assignments suggests areas of folklore for you to consider as topics for your fieldwork. Legends Contemporary legends Supernatural legends Religious legends legends about historical events Local or place-name legends Character legends Etiological legends (origin stories) fortunes won / fortunes lost legends Jokes Tall tales Family history passed on in oral tradition Courtship stories Ballads Folksongs Riddles Droodles / reebus Proverb

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Guide to Folklore Collecting Assignments suggests areas of folklore for you to consider as topics for your fieldwork. Legends Contemporary legends Supernatural legends Religious legends legends about historical events Local or place-name legends Character legends Etiological legends (origin stories) fortunes won / fortunes lost legends Jokes Tall tales Family history passed on in oral tradition Courtship stories Ballads Folksongs Riddles Droodles / reebus Proverb

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Guide to Folklore Collecting Assignments

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This list suggests areas of folklore for you to consider as topics for your eldwork: Legends Contemporary legends Supernatural legends Religious legends Legends about historical events Local or place-name legends Character legends Etiological legends (origin stories) Fortunes won/fortunes lost legends Jokes Tall tales Family history passed on in oral tradition Courtship stories Folk speech and dialect Personal experience narratives Ballads Folksongs Riddles Droodles/reebus Proverbs Folk rhymes Chants Charms
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Guide to Folklore Collecting Assignments

http://library.usu.edu/folklo/guide/isuggs.htm

Curses Taunts Tongue-twisters Beliefs Popular Beliefs Remedies/Cures Ways of predicting events or outcomes Good luck/bad luck charms or occurrences that inuence luck Games Pranks Initiations Traditional pastimes Festivals Customary celebrations Rites of passage such as customs and beliefs about birth, maturation, marriage, death Material culture items such as things: stitched, woven, whittled, quilted, braided, sculptured, built by hand, cooked

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For reference questions: [email protected] or phone (435) 797-3493. 2000 by Utah State University Libraries Fife Folklore Archives, Utah State University Libraries, Logan Utah 84322-3000 Guide to Folklore Collecting Assignments URL: http://library.usu.edu/folklo/guide/isuggs.htm Last modied on: 07/18/2008 11:42:25

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